Bale-tie



(No Model.)

F. T. WARBURTON.

BALE TIE.

NO. 370,508. Patented Sept. 27,- 1887.

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UNITED STATES FREDERICK TYNTE VVARBURTON,

BALE- OF NEWPORT NEWS, VIRGINIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part; of Letters Patent NO. 370,508, dated September 27, 1887.

Application filed August 15!, 1886.

.To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, FREDERICK TYNTE WAR nURTo-N,a subject of Her Britannic Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and residing at Newport News, county of WVarwick, State of Virginia, in the capacity of British Bale-Ties, of which the following is a full and clear specification.

My invention is an improvement in the class of balelies in which the ends of the balcers, but are passed through a narrow slot in the latter and doubled or bent back on themselves to form enlargements which prevent Witl1' drawal of the said ends from thekeeper when the bale expands.

Heretofore the slots of buckles forming part of ties of this kind have generally been made flaring at their ends to accommodate the doubled ends of the bands; but this construction is objectionable, since the band ends do in such enlarged portions of the buckle-slots, thus rendering their disengagement difficult. Furthermore, in no case, so far as I am aware, have the buckle-slots been made of such dimensions as to allow a doubled end of the band to be passed through it along with the body of the band. In my invention these objections are overcome .and marked advantages obtained, as will be hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures 1 and 2 are respectively side and plan views of one of the ends of a bale-band doubled or turned back on itself. Fig. 3 is a side view of a modified construction of the ends of the balcband. Fig. 4 is a face or plan Viewof the buckle or keeper. Figs. 5 and 6 illustrate the practical use of the invention. Fig. 7 is an end View of a bale having my improved tie applied thereto.

The bale-band is made in two parts or sections, A, of equal length,each slightly exceeding one-half the circumference of the bale when compressed. The ends of these parts or sections are connected by a keeper or buckle, B, on each side of the bale, as shown in Fig. 7.

2, of each band-section A are doubled over a round iron rod whose length equals the width of the band. I show a modi- Serial No. 210,739. (No model.)

fioatiou in Fig. 3 by which the end a of the band is thickened by doubling or foldingit on itself. The buckle or keeper B, Fig. 4, is an iron or steel frame haviugan oblong rectangular opening, 1), whose upper and lower sides are parallel.

The practical use and operation of my invention are as follows: In practice the several band-scctions are secured (by any preferred means) to the respective unchanneled upper and lower platens of the press. The buckles or keepers B are slipped on the ends of the band-sections A,which are placed on the lower platen. The unpressed cotton bale is then placed on the lower platen and compressed until reduced to the size required. The ends of both upper and lower band-sections, A,are

.now bent toward each other and brought to-- gether, as shown in Fig. 5, so their ends overlap. The buckles B are next moved up over the end of the upper band-section until it 0ccupies a position between the two band ends ac, as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 5. Then,

.when the compress is relaxed, the expansion of the bale draws the band ends a into the po' sition shown in Fig. 6that is to say, the said ends are drawn as far into the ends of the keeper B as practicable, so that the ends bear on each other and on the adjacent angles at the ends of the buckle-slot. Thus the ends of *the bands do not enter the buckle-slot b so as to become wedged or fastened therein. by friction, and hence no difficulty is experiencedin detaching the band ends from the buckle when required. Further,the fact that the keeper B can be passed over a single end a of a bandsection A and the body of the other section when lapped, as shown in Fig. 5, yet cannot pass over the two ends a a when lapped, as shown in Fig. 6,confers important advantages, since it enables the band ends tobe doubled (by machinery) preparatory to the pressing operation, and thus obviates the delay and labor incident to doubling the ends after passing through the buckle, as has been heretofore necessary in using ties of this general class. In other words, my buckle-slot being twentyeight sixty-fourths of an inch wide,(in its narrowest measurement,) and the combined thickness of the band and band end a (see arrow,

Fig. 5) but twenty-four sixty -fourths, while the two band ends a a together equal thirty-six sixty fourths of an inch, it is obvious the buckle may be slid along on the body of a band and over a single band end a, but not over both band ends, whereas heretofore the slots of buckles employed in connection with bands whose ends were thickened in this manner have been made too narrow to permit this operation. It will therefore be apparent that in the latter case the band ends must be passed through the buckles before being doubled,

while my invention permits the band ends to a buckle having a wide slot with parallel sides, since I am aware such havebeen used flatwise in connection with bands whose ends were looped and fastened around opposite sides of said buckles.

Some improvements described in this application are described and claimed in my application, Serial No. 245,347, filed July 26, 1887.

Vhat I claim as new is- The combination, with the buckle B, having a transverse slot with parallel upper and lower sides, of the band-sections A, having enlarged ends a, said slot and band ends being proportioned to each other, as hereinbefore specifiedthat is to say, the slot being wider than the combined thickness of the body of the band and one of its thickend ends a, but narrower than the combined thickness of both said ends a, as and for the purpose specified.

FREDERICK TYNTE WARBURTON.

Witnesses:

J AMES HAUGHTON, IRVING G. HARVEY. 

